Red Sox designated hitter Hanley Ramirez is sick of hearing about the Yankees.

The 34-year-old made that clear on Monday after the Red Sox made the signing of outfielder J.D. Martinez official.

"It's not only the Yankees. We keep worrying about the Yankees when there are more teams that are dangerous, too," Ramirez said, according to CBS Boston. "We're going to treat everybody the same way. It's a big league and anybody can beat you. So we just gotta go out on the field and step on everybody's neck."

Many prognosticators and oddsmakers have favored the Yankees to win the World Series this season after trading for NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton, but the Red Sox are the defending AL East champs, and Ramirez is thinking World Series or bust after adding their own slugger in Martinez on Monday.

Hanley Ramirez has made his 2018 goals clear.

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"That's our f--king goal," he said. "Every year. You know that. To win. To beat everybody. We're trying to go 162-0 in the regular season. But you know how it is. We're going to have our ups and downs, and we just gotta stick together all the way until the end. That's what we're doing right now, is sticking together."

Martinez, 30, hit .303 with 45 home runs and drove in 104 RBI last season with the Tigers and Diamondbacks. Ramirez trains with the right-handed slugger in the offseason and is excited about the mentality he brings to the Red Sox.

"We would go to the gym together, and then from the gym we would go to the cage. He always knew that it was more on him than he was given at that time, and he was always trying to get better," Ramirez said. "Last year I remember I asked him what was different. He told me, 'I'm just trying to get better every day.'

J.D. Martinez.

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Ramirez's comments certainly add some more juice to a rivalry that has been dormant in recent years.

Yankees GM Brian Cashman appeared to reignite it last year, comparing the Red Sox to the Golden State Warriors after they added Chris Sale to their rotation.

Cashman still was not buying the Yankees as the better team as recently as last week, when he said they would not be on equal footing with the Red Sox until they take the AL East from them.